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Will the World Ever Feel Safe? Child Trauma Reactivated in a Time of Global Crisis
During stressful and uncertain times, children and adolescents often feel increased anxiety, just as we do as adults. Depending on the age and stage of development, children often do not have a clear sense of how to articulate their worries. Fear can present in a variety of ways such as angry, oppositional behavior,…
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Still Scared After All These Years: Traumatic Stress Reactivated in a Time of Global Crisis
Jana Pressley, Psy.D. & Joseph Spinazzola, Ph.D. The Foundation Trust Resource Guide PDF in English Guía de recursos en español Guide de ressources en français Guia de recursos em português Current events often generate and exacerbate stress, especially in our age of the 24-hour news cycle and social media saturation. Whenever we log on,…
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New Research Differentiates a Complex Trauma Diagnosis for Adults from Borderline Personality Disorder
For decades the psychiatric diagnostic system in the United States has placed adults struggling with chronic mental health issues as a result of complex trauma in a limited number of narrowly defined boxes. Most prevalent among these is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Decades after its establishment as an important diagnosis, at its worst PTSD can…
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When Nowhere is Safe: New Findings from the Developmental Trauma Disorder National Field Trial on Complex Childhood Trauma
In a recent International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies blog entitled “When Nowhere is Safe: Traumatic Origins of Developmental Trauma Disorder,” Drs. Joseph Spinazzola and Julian Ford highlight findings from the two recently published lead studies of the Developmental Trauma Disorder national field trials. Their research provides the first data that explicitly substantiates the existence…
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New Core Topic: The Complexity of Racial Trauma
We are pleased to debut a timely and important new section of this website: The Complexity of Racial Trauma, co-developed by Foundation Trust Senior Training Associate, Dr. Jana Pressley and our esteemed colleague, Dr. Nancy Nealious. We welcome you to peruse the new content by clicking the hyperlink above and exploring the additional related…
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